Neck-form device.



A. T. NALEWAlA. N'ECK FORM DEVICEl ARPLlcATmmHLED'APR.12. 191s.

1,3@1 ,489 Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

ALBIN THOMAS NALEW'AJA, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

NECK-FORM DEVICE.

Leonesa Speeicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 19ML Application led April 12, 1918. Serial No.228,245.

T0 all whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBIN THOMAS NALE- wAJA, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Neck-FormDevices, of which the following lis a specification.

This invention relates to supports or forms for such articles of apparelas soft collars; and it is an object of this invention to provide asimple and effective form of device which will support a soft collar fordisplay purposes.

Mens stiff collars have been usually displayed by being supported on asuitable supporting member at the rear, usually held by a clip engagingthe back part of the collar. Soft collars cannot be eectively displayedin that manner because they hang down limply and are therefore noteffectively held in proper position. My device supports a soft collar inan effective display position, displaying the collar as it will appearupon the person; thus adding to the effectiveness of display andincreasing sales of the goods.

The invention will be best understood from the following detaileddescription of a preferred specific form of device which embodies theinvention; reference being had for this purpose to the accompanyingdrawings in which- Y Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved device;Fig. 2. is a sectional view showing the device in place in a collar, andshowing the collar supported upon a typical form of display support;Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 1 isa section similar to Fig. 3, showing a modified construction.

In the drawings I illustrate a soft collar at C. Such a collar has aninner fold 10 and an outer fold. In a typical form of collar displaydevice a vertical standard 12 is used and has spring clips 13 on itsforward face. The back part of the stili collar is slipped between clip13 of a standard 12 and is thus held in display position. I provide aspecial support for soft collars, which support has a part adapted tofit between the folds of the collar at or near the top, and also has apart adapted to be engaged by clip 13. The support is preferably made inthe manner now to be described. I preferably make the support of wire.Any suitable material may b'e used and the wire may be finished, platedor enameled, in any desired manner. preferably somewhat yielding, ratherthan being excessively springy, so that the support may be somewhat bentto be enlarged or contracted for different sizes of collars. The wire isformed into two substantially semicircular parts 15 whose ends approacheach other, leaving however, a slight space between the ends, so thatthese parts of the wires will not project into the open space at thefront of the collar. The two semicircular parts 15 meet at the back at16 and the two parts of the wire thence extend downwardly as shown at17. Here they are brazed, soldered or otherwise secured together, toform a part which presents a more or less Hat surface against which theupper engaging end 13a of the spring clip H may press. Below theseparts17 the two parts of the wire are spread apart again at the point 18 andare then carried on down and are joined together by the horizontal part19. This parti() is preferably flattened out as is clearly shown in Fig.2 so as to fit snugly behind the spring clip 13. At each side of thepart 19 the wire portions are carried somewhat forwardly (bent somewhatforwardly) as shown at 20; so that these parts extend forwardly onopposite edges of clip 13 to prevent lateral movement of the lower partof the device behind the spring clip. As a modified form, these partsmay be bent as shown at 2O2L in Fig. l to extend on opposite sides ofthe standard 12; to eifect the same purpose.

The device is placed in the soft collar in the position indicated inFig. 2 and then the collar and the supporting device are placed inposition as shown in that figure. The clip bears against the parts 17 ofthe supporting device and the parts '20 prevent the supporting devicefrom moving out of proper position. The collar is thus supportedproperly to make an effective dirplay.

In its preferred form it will be seen that this device is made of asingle piece of wire bent and formed in. the preferred coniigura tionherein described. However, it will be understood that I have onlydescribed this` specific form of device as being a preferred form ofdevice embodying my invention and not as limiting the invention.

.The material however, is

their free ends somewhat spaced apart, said vertical part beingrelatively narrow in its upper part and relatively wide in its lowerpart, and said lower part having laterally projecting portions adaptedto project on opposite edges of a supporting clip which engages thevertical portion of thc device.

2. A device of the character described, formed of a single piece of wireof a flexible conformable material; the end portions of said wireforming two opposite substantially semi-circular parts with their endsso1newhat spaced apart, and these semi-circular end-portions comingtogether at a point opposite the spaced apart ends, the two parts of thewire extending downwardly from the point of juncture and being securedtogether for a certain distance downwardly, the two wire parts belowthen spreading apart and being joined at the bottom by a horizontal partof the wire, and forwardly projecting' parts at the ends of thehorizontal parts, as and for the purpose described.

3. A collar supporting device, embodying in combination a supportingstandard, a collar support embodying a central substantially flatportion of a height substantially the same as that of a collar andadapted to t in vertical position between the folds of a collar at itsrear part, curved collar supporting members extending laterally andforwardly from the upper end of the central portion, and means on thestandard to hold and press said central portion and the back part ofthe' collar back against the standard.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my namethis 5th day of April 1918.

ALBIN THOMAS NALEWAJA.

Witnesses ELLEN IDA N ALEWAJA, VIRGINIA I. BERINGER.

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